Nimrod
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[edit]From Hebrew נִמְרוֹד (Nimród).
Proper noun
[edit]Nimrod
- (biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
- 1993, G. A. Rosso, Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas[1], page 80:
- Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.
- 2005, J. B. Segal, Edessa: The Blessed City[2], page 1:
- In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'. […] In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.
- 2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page:
- The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.
- A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
- A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.
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[edit]biblical king and hunter
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Noun
[edit]Nimrod (plural Nimrods)
- Any great hunter.
- 1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918, page 116:
- Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.
- Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”)
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hebrew נִמְרוֹד (Nimród).
Pronunciation
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